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<span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; Almost every number used to analyze California&#39;s drought can be debated, but this can be safely said: No level of restrictions on residential use can solve the problem. The solution lies with agriculture, which consumes more than its fair share.</span></p>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That doesn&#39;t mean homeowners can&#39;t and shouldn&#39;t cut back.</p>
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</div>Mark BittmanNationalThu, 23 Apr 2015 16:48:57 +0000admin5334 at http://liberalopinion.comMcDonald's Turns 'Progressive'http://liberalopinion.com/content/mcdonalds-turns-progressive
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<span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; You could almost feel sorry for McDonald&#39;s. That&#39;s an odd sentiment when you consider that the company&#39;s revenues in 2014 were $27.4 billion and its stock price makes it worth something like $92 billion. It&#39;s among the world&#39;s most valuable brands and has three times the U.S. market share of Subway, its nearest competitor.</span></p>
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</div>Mark BittmanNationalThu, 16 Apr 2015 21:54:26 +0000admin5289 at http://liberalopinion.comStop Making Us Guinea Pigshttp://liberalopinion.com/content/stop-making-us-guinea-pigs
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<span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; The issues surrounding GMOs - genetically modified organisms - have never been simple. They became more complicated last week when the International Agency for Research on Cancer declared that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used herbicide Roundup, probably causes cancer in humans. Two insecticides, malathion and diazinon, were also classified as &quot;probable&quot; carcinogens by the agency, a respected arm of the World Health Organization.</span></p>
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</div>Mark BittmanNationalThu, 02 Apr 2015 19:11:35 +0000admin5200 at http://liberalopinion.comWhat Is the Purpose of Society?http://liberalopinion.com/content/what-purpose-society
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<span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; The world of food and agriculture symbolizes most of what&#39;s gone wrong in the United States. But because food is plentiful for most people, and the damage that conventional agriculture does isn&#39;t readily evident to everyone, it&#39;s important that we look deeper, beyond food, to the structure that underlies most decisions: the political economy.</span></p>
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</div>GovernmentMark BittmanFri, 20 Feb 2015 01:18:26 +0000admin4916 at http://liberalopinion.comHens, Unboundhttp://liberalopinion.com/content/hens-unbound
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</div>Mark BittmanNationalFri, 09 Jan 2015 01:18:22 +0000admin4641 at http://liberalopinion.comAn Atheist's Christmas Dreamhttp://liberalopinion.com/content/atheists-christmas-dream
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<span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; I&#39;ve spent much of my life trying to ignore Christmas. As a secular Jew, an atheist and a progressive, my reasons are common. It&#39;s a commercial, obnoxious, even dreaded holiday. But it&#39;s not changing anytime soon and we should make the best of it. (Hanukkah, I might note, is no better, although it gives us an excuse to eat latkes.)</span></p>
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</div>Mark BittmanNationalFri, 02 Jan 2015 03:26:51 +0000admin4596 at http://liberalopinion.comIs It Bad Enough Yet?http://liberalopinion.com/content/it-bad-enough-yet
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<span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; The police killing unarmed civilians. Horrifying income inequality. Rotting infrastructure and an unsafe &quot;safety net.&quot; An inability to respond to climate, public health and environmental threats. A food system that causes disease. An occasionally dysfunctional and even cruel government. A sizable segment of the population excluded from work and subject to near-random incarceration.</span></p>
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</div>Mark BittmanNationalThu, 18 Dec 2014 09:38:33 +0000admin4525 at http://liberalopinion.comDon't Ask How to Feed The 9 Billionhttp://liberalopinion.com/content/dont-ask-how-feed-9-billion
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<span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; At dinner with a friend the other night, I mentioned that I was giving a talk this week debunking the idea that we need to grow more food on a large scale so we can &quot;feed the 9 billion&quot; - the anticipated global population by 2050.</span></p>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; She looked at me, horrified, and said, &quot;But how are you going to produce enough food to feed the hungry?&quot;</p>
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</div>Mark BittmanNationalThu, 20 Nov 2014 19:50:23 +0000admin4347 at http://liberalopinion.comWill China Defeat Obesity?http://liberalopinion.com/content/will-china-defeat-obesity
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<span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; Say what you will about the Chinese, but they know how to make wholesale changes, and sometimes those changes are inarguably for the good. As noted in an editorial in The Lancet last week, the life span of the average person in China in 1950 was 40 years; by 2011 it was around 76. (The average life span in the United States in 2011 was 79.)</span></p>
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</div>InternationalMark BittmanThu, 11 Sep 2014 19:24:58 +0000admin3868 at http://liberalopinion.comThe Drinker's Manifestohttp://liberalopinion.com/content/drinkers-manifesto
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<span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; Across my desk recently came a reissue of the 1964 classic &quot;The Drinking Man&#39;s Diet,&quot; a cute little volume that maintains that if you drink a bit you&#39;ll lose weight. Counterintuitive, because one of the things we think we know about alcohol is that it provides truly empty calories, which generally speaking cause weight gain (see, for example, soda).</span></p>
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</div>Mark BittmanNationalThu, 04 Sep 2014 18:05:22 +0000admin3817 at http://liberalopinion.comFrench Food Goes Downhttp://liberalopinion.com/content/french-food-goes-down
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&nbsp; &nbsp; Before my first visit to France, around 45 years ago, I was told that you couldn&#39;t find bad food there if you tried. I was of limited experience, so even a hot dog jammed into a baguette bore witness to that &quot;fact.&quot;</p>
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